Monthly Archives: April 2016

It’s always fun when the newest flagships start seeing their prices drop, but this deal on a brand new 32GB Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is not just a price drop–it’s a steal. At $ 629, it’s a full $ 150 less than the price you’d pay to T-Mobile or the like. You can get it a little cheaper on Amazon, at $ 752, but this deal is still over $ 120 better than that.

Even better, this isn’t some fly-by-night seller that you have to worry about.

Probably the biggest event on the Android calendar is Google I/O, and it’s just around the corner, running from the 18th of May to the 20th. This year’s event will be held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, where the first Google I/O event took place in 2008, rather than the usual Moscone Center in San Francisco.

There has been much speculation as to what this will look like. This is, after all, relatively new territory for the company.

Minecraft isn’t the first game you think about when you hear the word “immersion.” No, it’s the first one you think of when you hear “surprisingly popular,” or “construction-based,” or “Notch made more money than Solomon’s divorce lawyer.” But even so, it’s been tied to the new virtual reality trend more than once, most notably thanks to new owner Microsoft’s HoloLens platform. That said, a little platform competition isn’t going to keep them from making ungodly amounts of money, so check out Minecraft for Samsung’s Gear VR headsets.

Twitter has a bit of a love/hate relationship with mobile platforms and Android in particular. On the one hand, it’s so aggressively possessive and wants an exclusive relationship devoid of any third-parties, on the other it updates its apps at a nice pace and adds new features to them. Oh well, it did let Android users hang behind iOS more than once, but we’re not holding grudges.

A product of HTC’s research division, One Gallery allows users to upload photos and videos to a variety of cloud services through the HTC Gallery app. However, according to changelogs for both apps, the One Gallery service will be discontinued on April 30.

No reason has been given for the discontinuation, but it might be down to the number of installs it’s had, somewhere in the 1 million to 5 million bracket.

Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we couldn’t get to during our regular news rounds. Consider this a quick update for the dedicated gamers who can’t wait for our bi-weekly roundups, and don’t want to wade through a whole day’s worth of news just to get their pixelated fix. Today we’ve got a stylish action-platformer, another retro revival from DotEmu, an original music game, a puzzle sequel, a beautiful point-and-click adventure, a twitchy shooter, and a retro roguelike.

I’ll be honest here. We don’t know what’s exactly happening with the Android N Dev Preview 2′s Downloads and Files situation. There are lots of nitty gritty changes happening and we obviously can’t tell if these are forgotten missteps in this release or if this is the way things will be from now on. I’ve been going back and forth between each screenshot of Android N Dev Preview 1 and its equivalent on Dev Preview 2 trying to understand the rationale behind some of these changes, but I haven’t made sense of it all.

The great thing about tablet holders is that they hold tablets. There is a tablet holder that you can buy for only three bucks on Amazon right now with coupon code 6GZKNB8B. It normally costs eight dollars, and three is less than eight, so that makes it a rather good price.

The stand is made of solid aluminum, which means it would have been worth a small fortune 200 years ago.

Google and Microsoft, while not outright enemies, have been engaged in a number of public slap-fights over the years. After all: they’re competitors, and Google competes with Microsoft in three areas where the company’s fortunes have sharply declined (smartphones, the browser wars) or never really got off the ground to begin with (Bing).